ASMR at The Louvre

Experience the Louvre Museum in a whole new way — via autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). ️

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00:00Feel relaxed and protected.

00:16Keeping an open mind, allowing our five senses to be enveloped with what is being offered

00:26here.

00:29Do not worry about trying to understand everything.

00:34Let our instincts be led to where it is best, where we are needed, where everything resonates

00:46and calls out to us.

00:50When you go to the Louvre, you see so many people heading to the same works of art, making

00:54a selfie and showing themselves in the museum but not in the paintings.

00:59I think ASMR is a tool to feel like being in the painting.

01:03ASMR is a tingling sensation that some people can feel in the scalp and that go down the

01:11neck, even the spine sometimes.

01:16It's a sensation that connects you to a moment, sometimes a very simple moment.

01:21That's what I wanted to show in this video.

01:23It's not all about sounds added to an image.

01:27It's more a point of view, a way of being when you visit a museum, feeling, connecting,

01:33taking your time, breathing and let the sensations come like the texture of fabric, floral water,

01:42the smell of anything, being in the paintings.

01:47Opening the doors, letting fate draw us to the works that speak to us, lending an ear.

02:02These hands with so much finesse and with dexterity naively discover the texture of

02:11a material, a fabric, an element of nature, florals or plants in this painting by Nicolas

02:23de Largillière.

02:27When I saw this painting by Nicolas de Largillière, I had to do this video.

02:31It was maybe the starting point of the video.

02:34When I watched this painting for the first time, I really heard the sounds of each hand

02:39touching the material.

02:42And I felt like you have to do an ASMR video.

02:44You have to show that your brain or your mind gives you the sensations of the scene that

02:51you're watching in front of you.

02:53The gods arise, they traipse the earth with their agile hooves.

03:03The city gates as well as the important entrances of the Assyrian palace, especially those of

03:12the throne room, are guarded by winged balls with human heads.

03:19Ancient protective prodigies poised to prevent any threat.

03:27We must therefore stay silent.

03:32I think to understand a feeling or sensation, you need to experience it and to explore it.

03:38And if you don't know what ASMR is a feeling, you can't really understand that.

03:43So I really understand people, the frustration of people on the internet who will criticize

03:49and say, what is this crap?

03:51And it's so useless watching these people touching things and making noise.

03:58Never mind.

03:59Well, we're all different.